Show need eod of improvement in dairy methods Mf thod from farmers Faral Irs review in no article of human food la is ao so much falth consumed as in dairy product products when milk or cream Is ordered even oven at our beat hotels and restaurants dirt Is frequently found at the bottom 1 ir it Is allowed to stand ak short time i is not appealing to say sair the least lo ast and in driving people who like milk to using something eom ething in its stead this greatly reduces the consumption of milk and at besent americans do not consume more than one third PA much milk per capita as Is in used in some european countries many persons use as little milk as possible because of he the careless way la in which it la Is produced and the tear fear that it may contain disease gornis germs As dairy products aro are consumed coas umed in the icv state there Is of course more danger on this zis account but when in proper condition they are both healthful and economical and would be consumed lu la much larger quantities it if people could always obtain them bleau and of good quality simply because we are accustomed to doing a thing in a slipshod way la Is no reason for its continuance we are living in an a ot of the most rapid change and improvement and the sharpest competition the public I 1 Is becoming more intelligent and Is d de mandla better food products year after year and unless the dairymen fall into line and march with a th the pro cession by producing clean milk and dairy products their consumption will certainly decrease people will not continue to drink milk lu it which a ament Is found and to eat poor butter utter and cheese it Is then to the interest of the dairymen as well as the general public that attention be given to the production of milk butter and heese that are clean and attractive in appearance as well as of superior perlor lu quality in dairying as an in all other occupations there Is room at the top and it Is in the better claes class of dairying that the profits lie ile tor for this Is as yet a field almost wholly unoccupied W J fraser university of illinois gain in feeding silage there are about hills in an acre 0 corn valuing the corn at frum from 10 to 12 2 an acre you will win find feeding six hill hills a day it will cost you 2 cents a day to feed a cow or a horse the cow or horse Is to doing its on oin grinding and an shucking the feed costing you 4 11 cents per day per animal we Yeti enber ber one year after jur ur cows bad hod gone through a terrible droulia dro dt they caught the pink t ye from a neighbors cattle which be he had bought at the stock yards they fell oft la in flesh and milk frost had killed our out alcid corn and ind we were at a loss to know what to do this was the latter iatter part of october and we began to food feed ensilage and fram that day we increased our milk loo cows gained in flesh the hair looked silky and glossy and the milk was 0 at a rich june color 4 A unscientific Hand handling llna 0 of milk mr mcnutt said the farmer sells hie his fallk for 2 cents a quart the baby who drinks it pays 8 two cents tor for pandu tion lon 6 cents for distribution therum Is something sum ething wrong about that I 1 counci cat tt the trouble one morning when in new now york at 40 4 a milkman camo came along climbed stairs and left a pint of milk his rattled away a quarter of a mile ana and delivered another pint plat that morning over fifteen milk peddlers came up tinse same stairs to deliver milk we have learned how to distribute als tribute our letters I 1 but if we had the same system of distribution in the mall mail beryle e that we hav bave ivo in the 1 milk businelle busl busin nesb ellb evory every letter i would cost 25 cents postage boston harbor 11 arbor mich news how sour soils solis are made rhe black soils are lacarl tar rich in nitrogen and pota because 1 they are largely composed atthe ct the charcoal of decayed alis accumulation produced has been prevented from total decomposition by the water lying heavily in the soils and ex excluding eluding the air tle drifting sands an clay silt slit and the earth in n which the blants were rooted supply suf grut dent mineral matter to make them into healthy soils which settle atle grad bally to fairly firm mass except in some parts darts where the water lay stag nant too so heavily the year roun round T last condition allowed only a growth of water plants like ab and resulted in what are termed bogus sok soils too deficient in mineral matt mattes to properly u hp epport port farm crops As portion ot of each years vegetation b be cime entirely decomposed and ta aks charcoal bodies cr carbon structures were burned out aad and passed off into shiras SJ the air iras as carbon gas humus was d do sd through the mass thus mat ing food for planta to be taken OP up by theata them in absorbing the soli soil C |